by Brad Meltzer (Author)
Sara Tate is a prosecuting attorney with the Manhattan DA's office; her husband, Jared Lynch, a rising star in a Wall Street Law firm. They have a wonderful, happy, high-spirited, non-competitive marriage - until they accidentally find themselves on opposite sides of the courtroom, and their relationship starts to fall apart. Worse, they are threatened by interested parties on each side of the case. The result is obvious: one of them will lose. The other one will die.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Edition: 2
Publisher: Coronet
Published: 26 Mar 1999
ISBN 10: 0340658177
ISBN 13: 9780340658178
Book Overview: Bestselling author Brad Meltzer's second novel took the contemporary legal thriller to its next stage.
'Just when you thought there were no more changes to be rung on the legal thriller, Meltzer follows up his bestselling inside look at the Supreme Court (The Tenth Justice) with this sleek, suspenseful, only slightly unbelievable story about two young New York lawyers in love and danger. . . . Definitely compelling tale of legal and extralegal adventure'
Publishers Weekly
'A very aptly titled gripper that will have Grisham slapping his wife's wrist in pique over the breakfast toast when he discovers Melzter's plot for his second novel . . . Author Meltzer is an attorney himself, which lends the novel's dialogue a sparkling undercurrent of real-life chitchat, not to mention the mutual sabre-sharpening that readers will quickly pick up on and enjoy as a bonus'
Kirkus Reviews
Races along...deftly written...haunting...Meltzer is so good.
- Entertainment Weekly
A gem of a plot...so strong...breezes along in 'high gear'. Highly
recommended.
- Chicago Tribune
Terrific...Reads like a Tracy-Hepburn movie directed by Sam
Peckinpah...complete with cliffhangers at the end of every chapter.
- Newsday
Rachets up the tension.
- San Francisco Chronicle
A truly scary ending.
- Newsday
As he demonstrated in his first novel, The Tenth Justice...Meltzer has a
gift for revealing the heart-stopping intensity of legal systems under
extreme pressure.
- San Francisco Chronicle
Meltzer does it again with...a different twist...The book is well-crafted
and will hold your interest -- just like John Grisham's books, but with a
Yankee twang.
- Chattanooga Free Press
Meltzer comes back with an even stronger effort that should catch the eye
of every John Grisham devotee.
- Chicago Tribune
Sleek, suspenseful...definitely compelling.
-Publishers Weekly
Deftly written dialogue and characters.
-Entertainment Weekly
A page-turner.
-The Oakland Press
'An absolute page-turner . . . [A] shocking Catch-22 situation'
News-Herald (Detroit)
'Gets the blood pumping'
The New York Times
'Breakneck . . . an action-packed read'
Mail on Sunday
'A great story with good writing and lashings of black comedy'
Peterborough Evening Telegraph